Last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused the United States of failing to honor pledges in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Citing “the futility of negotiations with the Americans,” he distanced himself from the nuclear deal he once supported. Coming just weeks after the one-year anniversary of the agreement, his charge is just […]
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Middle East, USADonald Trump says he had no interest in using the 50 national security officials from Republican administrations who saidMonday he’d put U.S. national security at risk, and that he won the GOP presidential primaries by fighting insiders. “I wasn’t using any of them and they would have loved to have been involved with the campaign,”
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USAKISSIMMEE, Fla. — Hillary Clinton presented this year’s presidential election as a stark difference in ideology and temperament between herself and Donald Trump at a rally in Kissimmee Monday. “I think as people really consider their choice in the next three months, I think it’s pretty clear which of us is actually going to help
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USACHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday lamented that a young man lost his life in the latest Chicago police shooting, which has set off protests in Chicago, but declined to offer ideas for preventing such incidents until an investigation is completed. “Look, any time there’s a loss of life, it’s a tragedy in the
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USAOptimism gives you disappointment. Cynicism gives you the world. By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — I’d heard that Steve Martin was a far more complicated man than the “wild and crazy guy” we’ve come to know on the screen. But I didn’t know how dark and cynical he was until I saw Meteor Shower
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International, USAEvan McMullin, a former CIA undercover agent and counterterrorism expert, is expected to announce a White House run as a third-party conservative alternative to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to multiple reports. Mr. McMullin’s campaign shows that the #NeverTrump movement remains a force within the Republican Party and that Mr. Trump’s candidacy continues to
A new ad from a pro-Donald Trump political action committee plays off Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s statement several years ago that she and her husband, former President Clinton, were “dead broke” coming out of the White House. “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Mrs. Clinton says
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USAPhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte criticized the U.S. ambassador to the island nation by calling him “gay.” Duterte was discussing his recent campaign for president with soldiers in Cebu last week, when he singled out Philip Goldberg, who has served as ambassador to the Philippines since November 2013 and has been critical of Duterte’s remarks about
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International, USAThe Defense Ministry issued a clarification this evening (Monday), after its harsh attack on the US government on Friday apparently comparing the Iran nuclear deal to the 1938 Munich agreements. “In light of the mistaken meaning attributed by the media to the Defense Ministry statement on Friday, we wish to clarify: The state of Israel
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Middle East, USAIn 1976, at age 22, Sassy Reuven was an Israeli soldier serving on the Golan Heights when he became part of the force sent to liberate more than 100 hostages at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. Sasson Reuven today; of his participation in the Entebbe rescue, he said, “I had a mission to complete, and
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International, Middle East, USAAmar’e Stoudemire, the NBA basketball star who just signed with Hapoel Jerusalem, said that he has always wanted to be in Israel, and play basketball there – and he is now realizing his dream. In his first press conference since arriving in Israel at the end of last week, Stoudemire explained his transfer to Hapoel
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USAFor more than a century, the Anti-Defamation League has been known as a group that combats anti-Semitism. But one year after taking the group”s helm, Jonathan Greenblatt wants it to focus on more than just the Jews. Greenblatt”s predecessor as ADL national director, Abraham Foxman, became known during his decades at ADL”s helm as an
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USARIO DE JANEIRO — Aimee Boorman, the United States women’s gymnastics coach, couldn’t remember the specific jokes she was telling her prized protege, Simone Biles, to keep her loose during the long interval before the balance beam. “I’m sure she thinks they’re really stupid,” Boorman said. But they were good enough to help Biles conquer
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